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Finding Your SharePoint Champions

Implementing SharePoint is a challenge, to say the least. It takes a lot of IT and management hours to define what we want to achieve with our portal, followed by many hours implementing and customizing SharePoint according to our requirements. Then, we need to start building team sites and tweaking the portal pages according to[…]

The User-Centric Approach – Google Universal Analytics vs. Mixpanel

About 6 months ago, Google released Universal Analytics, which – in a nutshell – offers 4 new key features: Measurement Protocol – an API that can be used for multi-platform tracking Improved Feature Configuration Management – through the GA admin screens, rather than the JavaScript agent Custom Dimensions and Metrics – very similar to the[…]

Linking events to a specific user in Google Universal Analytics

In this post I will show you how to send events for a specific user from both the JavaScript agent (Analytics.js) and the Measurement Protocol. I could not find any existing information about how to do so. After some research, I did, however, find a great presentation by @techpad that talks about improving e-commerce tracking[…]

My Google Tag Manager Wishlist

The Google Tag Manager (GTM) is indeed a great tool to have. Although several tag management services did exist before (such as tagman and ubertags), none of them were as simple and as easy as GTM – at least not for me. I know the GTM has only been with us for few months, and[…]

Analyzing Visitor Paths Using Google Analytics – Part II

A quick update on the Goal Analysis Report I’ve described in my last post. I’ve been asked to add an option to highlight users who completed a certain goal. So for example, if I have the following goals: “Sign up” and “Download” and I am currently looking at the people who completed the “Sign up”[…]

Where Marketers (Used to) Fear to Tread

During the height of the recent recession, marketing industry publications were lamenting the diminishing average tenure of the CMO. 22 months was about the time when someone in the hierarchy got tired of waiting for results. The lamentation was well-meaning: Marketing is under a great deal of pressure to create ROI immediately and this pressure[…]